The physical description offered here, a specific age, hair, and clothing, is more detailed than many of this register's fleeting apparition reports, giving witnesses a consistent figure to recognise across repeat sightings rather than a vaguer sense of a presence, though as with most such accounts no name or historical identity has been attached to the child.
A disembodied voice calling a living staff member by name is a distinct and more unsettling category of report than a purely visual sighting, this register recording relatively few instances of an apparition apparently addressing a specific individual directly by name rather than being simply seen or heard incidentally.
Southside Street's concentration of reported hauntings, including the Black Friars Distillery and Shirley Valentine's Taverna recorded separately in this register, makes this short stretch of the Barbican one of the most densely reported haunted locations in the whole of this wider Devon register, the little girl's own story among the more restrained and least dramatic of the cluster.
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